To go with SKorea-Germany-history-miners,FEATURE by Chang Won LIMIn this picture taken on December 31, 2013,shows a Korean miner's passport with departure stamp and German visa is displayed at the Memorial House of Miners and Nurses Dispatched to Germany in Seoul. Fifty years ago, several hundred South Koreans went to work in German mines -- the first wave of a flood of Korean migrants whose remittances helped jumpstart one of the great economic transformations of the modern age. AFP PHOTO / Woohae CHO (Photo credit should read WOOHAE CHO/AFP/Getty Images)
